Ribbit

Moby ID: 131024

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Released: 1974 on Mainframe
Credits: 4 people

Moby Score: n/a
Collected By: 1 players

Genre: Simulation
Strategy / tactics
Perspective: Text-based / Spreadsheet
Pacing: Turn-based
Gameplay: Board game
Chess
Interface: Text parser

Number of Offline Players: 1 Player

See Also

Ribbit (1982 on Apple II)

Description

Ribbit is a chess program written in Fortran. The program played at the first world computer chess championship in 1974 and placed second. It also won the 1974 American Computer Chess Championship. The program was later replaced by the upgraded Treefrog.

Credits (Mainframe version)

4 People

Written by

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MobyGames ID: 131024

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Game added by vedder.

Game added July 31, 2019. Last modified February 22, 2023.